NOVAK v. RATHNAM

No. 3-83-0203.

119 Ill. App.3d 847 (1983)

457 N.E.2d 158

DAVID M. NOVAK, Indiv. and as Adm'r of the Estate of Beverly Ann Novak, Deceased, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. A. RATHNAM, M.D., et al., Defendants-Appellants (Robert Lee Endicott, Defendant).

Appellate Court of Illinois — Third District.

Opinion filed November 30, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Neil F. Hartigan, Attorney General, of Springfield (Rosalyn B. Kaplan, Assistant Attorney General, of counsel), for appellants.

Leonard M. Ring and Judith E. Fors, both of Leonard M. Ring and Associates, of Chicago, for appellee.


Reversed and remanded.

PRESIDING JUSTICE STOUDER delivered the opinion of the court:

This is an appeal from an interlocutory order (certified question of law under Supreme Court Rule 308). On March 7, 1983, the Peoria County Circuit Court granted an order compelling defendants Rathnam, a psychiatrist and Girmscheid, a psychologist to submit to discovery depositions and testify as to their treatment of the third defendant Endicott. The underlying claim is a...

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